Republican Retards...

[Unny]

As opposed to Socialistic Democratic PC Retards!

There's a diff....???

Only in the partisan bull spewed by each side.

Neither side wants to see how full of crap they are...

[Stramash]

As opposed to Socialistic Democratic PC Retards!

There's a diff....???

Only in the partisan bull spewed by each side.

Neither side wants to see how full of crap they are...

Happy Birthday 'Unny'.

:twisted:

[StevieJR]

As opposed to Socialistic Democratic PC Retards!

There's a diff....???

Only in the partisan bull spewed by each side.

Neither side wants to see how full of crap they are...

Happy Birthday 'Unny'.

:twisted:

.... she's got a right gob on her that one.....looks good for 42 tho!

[beej]

As opposed to Socialistic Democratic PC Retards!

There's a diff....???

Only in the partisan bull spewed by each side.

Neither side wants to see how full of crap they are...

Happy Birthday 'Unny'.

:twisted:

.... she's got a right gob on her that one.....looks good for 42 tho!

Is Unny that one dating that tubby granddad?

[English_Bob]

As opposed to Socialistic Democratic PC Retards!

There's a diff....???

Only in the partisan bull spewed by each side.

Neither side wants to see how full of crap they are...

Happy Birthday 'Unny'.

:twisted:

Oh yeah! Happy Birthday, Dave.

(And you, Jesus)

[CiaranM]

As opposed to Socialistic Democratic PC Retards!

There's a diff....???

Only in the partisan bull spewed by each side.

Neither side wants to see how full of crap they are...

Happy Birthday 'Unny'.

:twisted:

Oh yeah! Happy Birthday, Dave.

(And you, Jesus)

who's Jesus ?? is he on TF ?? :roll:

[Bruce551]

As opposed to Socialistic Democratic PC Retards!

There's a diff....???

Only in the partisan bull spewed by each side.

Neither side wants to see how full of crap they are...

Happy Birthday Unny.

Democrats are far from prefect. But, one could safely say that Republican party led the USA into Iraq war.

And,

Love Wall St Big Investment Banks and the super rich.

Are in bed with Big Oil & Coal companies.

Don't support the EPA efforts to regulate Air & Water pollution from Fossils Fuels mining, Oil production and refining. Not to mention any kind of CO2 regulation.

From NPR.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125075282

"Many ordinary citizens take their cues on complex political issues from leaders of the political party that they identify with," says DiPeso, from the GOP environmental group.

But Daniel J. Weiss, senior fellow and director of climate strategy at the Center for American Progress Action Fund, which is a Democratic organization, says that it's public opinion that is leading the leaders in this case.

He cites the frequent attacks against global warming efforts launched by Rush Limbaugh and commentators on Fox News Channel. "That has really riled up their highly conservative base," Weiss says.

He also notes that elected officials are well aware of the opposition to congressional climate change legislation led by energy companies and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce — a group that has already announced it will spend $50 million seeking to influence this year's elections.

"If you're a Republican, would you really stand up to them and risk getting on their wrong side," Weiss says, "when they have so much money to spend?"

The Chamber of Commerce, gets political donations from Oil Exporting Nations like Saudi Arabia which fund Republican political campaigns.

Both, Apple & Google have resigned their membership to the Chamber.

[Bruce551]

Ken Salazar exorcises Gale Norton

Posted By Guest On December 24, 2010 @ 5:45 pm In Politics

http://climateprogress.org/2010/12/24/ken-salazar-exorcises-gale-norton/

It’s been too long in coming, but today Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is repealing a sneak attack on millions of acres of pristine public lands in the West launched by his Bush administration predecessor Gale Norton.

In a lamentable tenure that included corruption [3] and ethics scandals [4], attacks on scientific integrity [5], and a campaign to turn federal lands into a playground for the oil and gas industry [6], Norton’s backroom “no more wilderness [7]†deal with a Utah Governor in 2003 was among her most egregious betrayals of the public trust. In it Norton repudiated the Bureau of Land Management’s long accepted authority to protect public lands possessing characteristics that would qualify them as wilderness under the 1964 Wilderness Act.

That authority, accepted by every previous administration — Democratic and Republican — since the mid-1970’s, allowed Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to shield special places among the 245 million acres it manages from development, giving Congress the opportunity to decide whether to include them in the national wilderness system. Once developed, such as by roads constructed for oil and gas activities, such areas are rendered forever ineligible for wilderness designation.

Though it affected federal lands in several western states, the Norton policy had by far its biggest impact in Utah, where it removed the umbrella of protection from millions of acres of BLM-managed land. It was a disastrous policy mistake, recognized as such by moderate western newspapers such as the Salt Lake Tribune [8] and Denver Post [9], and thoroughly repudiated [10] by dozens of legal experts on public lands law.

The anti-conservationist right will no doubt launch predictable attacks on Salazar for undoing the Norton policy.

And..

"WASHINGTON — The Justice Department is investigating whether former Interior Secretary Gale A. Norton illegally used her position to benefit Royal Dutch Shell PLC, the company that later hired her, according to officials in federal law enforcement and the Interior Department.

The criminal investigation centers on the Interior Department's 2006 decision to award three lucrative oil shale leases on federal land in Colorado to a Shell subsidiary. Over the years it would take to extract the oil, according to calculations from Shell and a Rand Corp. expert, the deal could net the company hundreds of billions of dollars."

[Bruce551]

A Coming Assault on the E.P.A.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/25/opinion/25sat1.html?_r=2&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

Republicans in the next Congress are obviously set on limiting the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority under the Clean Air Act to regulate a wide range of air pollutants — even if it means denying the agency money to run its programs and chaining its administrator, Lisa Jackson, to the witness stand. Fred Upton, who will become the next chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, says he plans to call Ms. Jackson so often for questioning that he’ll guarantee her a permanent parking space on Capitol Hill.

It is equally plain that Ms. Jackson has no intention of abandoning her agenda or her defense of one of the most successful of America’s landmark environmental statutes. What is not clear is where the White House stands and whether it is prepared to resist industry’s standard litany that E.P.A. is as an out-of-control agency threatening jobs with unnecessary rules.

President Obama’s political advisers have shown little enthusiasm for environmental issues. Mr. Obama himself ceded leadership on the climate-change issue to Congress, which ended up doing nothing. On the other hand, his chief environmental adviser is Carol Browner, herself a former E.P.A. administrator whose aggressive clean-air initiatives in the Clinton years would never have prevailed without Oval Office support.

Which is just what Ms. Jackson will need in the months ahead. On her plate is: a proposed rule reducing pollutants like sulfur dioxide, the acid rain gas, from power plants east of the Mississippi River; a first-of-its-kind rule limiting toxic pollutants like mercury, which the agency has been ducking for years; and, most problematic, proposals imposing new “performance standards†on power plants to limit greenhouse gases.

Taken together, these and other pending rules should lead to a dramatically less polluting fleet of power plants, a process already set in motion by the rapid decline in natural gas prices. That has encouraged industry to retire dirtier coal-burning facilities. Everyone will benefit: citizens from cleaner air, lakes and fish from reduced mercury deposits, the atmosphere from lower greenhouse gases.

Some important players in industry are ready for change. In a recent letter in The Wall Street Journal, a group of powerful utilities including Pacific Gas and Electric and New Jersey’s Public Service said that industry had had plenty of time to prepare, that pollution could be reduced in cost-effective ways and that newer and cleaner plants will create jobs, not destroy them.

But this is hardly a universal view in industry and in Congress. Although the Supreme Court ruled in 2007 that the Clean Air Act gives the E.P.A. not just the right but the obligation to regulate greenhouse gases, the Senate tried to subvert that authority once. Senator John Rockefeller IV, a Democrat who represents West Virginia coal interests, will surely try again.

Ms. Jackson will have to be tactically smart, lest overreaching on one rule brings the whole house down. She has already delayed new air-quality standards for ozone. She says she needs more scientific evidence to set precise limits. Historically, clean-air rules are almost always litigated, so having sound science on her side is essential.

But she won’t get far without Mr. Obama’s backing. Ms. Browner could remind the president that it was after a dispiriting Republican midterm victory that President Bill Clinton found his feet on environmental issues. In 1995, the Newt Gingrich crowd came to town promising to overturn a whole body of environmental law. Mr. Clinton rose up, not only winning the big battles, but eventually compiling a sterling record. Mr. Obama should emulate him.

[eagle]

As opposed to Socialistic Democratic PC Retards!

There's a diff....???

Only in the partisan bull spewed by each side.

Neither side wants to see how full of crap they are...

So true. Obama appointed Michael Taylor as food safety Czar. This man brought us bovine growth hormones in milk and GMO crops as a monsanto exec. Is this the change he was talking about ?

[Bruce551]

As opposed to Socialistic Democratic PC Retards!

There's a diff....???

Only in the partisan bull spewed by each side.

Neither side wants to see how full of crap they are...

So true. Obama appointed Michael Taylor as food safety Czar. This man brought us bovine growth hormones in milk and GMO crops as a monsanto exec. Is this the change he was talking about ?

http://www.grist.org/article/2009-07-08-monsanto-FDA-taylor

Mr. Taylor is a lawyer who began his revolving door adventures as counsel to FDA. He then moved to King & Spalding, a private-sector law firm representing Monsanto, a leading agricultural biotechnology company. In 1991 he returned to the FDA as Deputy Commissioner for Policy, where he was part of the team that issued the agency's decidedly industry-friendly policy on food biotechnology and that approved the use of Monsanto's genetically engineered growth hormone in dairy cows. His questionable role in these decisions led to an investigation by the federal General Accounting Office, which eventually exonerated him of all conflict-of-interest charges. In 1994, Mr. Taylor moved to USDA to become administrator of its Food Safety and Inspection Service ... After another stint in private legal practice with King & Spalding, Mr. Taylor again joined Monsanto as Vice President for Public Policy in 1998.

"Vice president for public policy" means, of course, chief lobbyist. Monsanto had hired him to keep his former colleagues at USDA and FDA, as well as Congress folk, up to date on the wonders of patent-protected seed biotechnology.

Well, can't win em all,

:?

[eagle]

As opposed to Socialistic Democratic PC Retards!

There's a diff....???

Only in the partisan bull spewed by each side.

Neither side wants to see how full of crap they are...

So true. Obama appointed Michael Taylor as food safety Czar. This man brought us bovine growth hormones in milk and GMO crops as a monsanto exec. Is this the change he was talking about ?

http://www.grist.org/article/2009-07-08-monsanto-FDA-taylor

Mr. Taylor is a lawyer who began his revolving door adventures as counsel to FDA. He then moved to King & Spalding, a private-sector law firm representing Monsanto, a leading agricultural biotechnology company. In 1991 he returned to the FDA as Deputy Commissioner for Policy, where he was part of the team that issued the agency's decidedly industry-friendly policy on food biotechnology and that approved the use of Monsanto's genetically engineered growth hormone in dairy cows. His questionable role in these decisions led to an investigation by the federal General Accounting Office, which eventually exonerated him of all conflict-of-interest charges. In 1994, Mr. Taylor moved to USDA to become administrator of its Food Safety and Inspection Service ... After another stint in private legal practice with King & Spalding, Mr. Taylor again joined Monsanto as Vice President for Public Policy in 1998.

"Vice president for public policy" means, of course, chief lobbyist. Monsanto had hired him to keep his former colleagues at USDA and FDA, as well as Congress folk, up to date on the wonders of patent-protected seed biotechnology.

Well, can't win em all,

:?

Obama is just another player in the political poker game after all. Remember him swimming in the Gulf with his daughter to show it was all cleaned up for the tourists. People are dying down in the gulf region from the oil and corexit dispersant. No one should be swimming down there. That makes Obama either a fool or a corporate shill or both.

[Bruce551]

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/12/27/ralph-hall-blossoming/

New Science Committee Chair Ralph Hall Praises ‘Tremendous’ BP Spill

Rep. Ralph Hall (R-TX) plans to pursue an aggressive pro-oil agenda as the incoming chair of the House Science and Technology Committee. In an interview with the Dallas Morning News this month, the “unconditional champion of fossil fuels†described his zeal for the “holy grail†of the oil industry — the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge — discussed issuing subpoenas to interrogate climate scientists, and explained why the BP disaster “didn’t dampen his enthusiasm for offshore drilling.†Hall described the BP explosion that killed eleven men, injured dozens, and led to the despoilment of the Gulf of Mexico as a “tremendous,†“blossoming†flower of energy:

As we saw that thing bubbling out, blossoming out – all that energy, every minute of every hour of every day of every week – that was tremendous to me. That we could deliver that kind of energy out there – even on an explosion.

In an extensive report yesterday, the New York Times describes the explosion differently: “Dazed and battered survivors, half-naked and dripping in highly combustible gas, crawled inch by inch in pitch darkness, willing themselves to the lifeboat deck. . . . Crew members, certain they were about to be cooked alive, scrambled into enclosed lifeboats for shelter, only to find them like smoke-filled ovens.â€

[StuckinBKK]

Whilst i agree with the original comment that the Republicans are useless bunch of spendtoomuch hypocritical murdering totalitarians.

Why are the Tea Party's policies of having a balanced budget, not wishing to raise the countries overdraft forever more, low taxation thus small govt policies, small military so they dont go looting and murdering around the planet ridiculed by the so called left/establishment.

I know theyve been piggy backed by religious nutcases and that abhorrent Alaskan but why o why do people such as QE3 loving Vince Cable refer to their policies as extremist.

IMHO if, or probably when nations default itll be the current generation the ones who have voted for parties that buy their vote with money they can never pay back thatll suffer, its got to be better then our children having to pay for most our generation being politically illiterate.

[SKYWARRIOR]

Vote em all out and start over again. American politics are f**ked up beyond recognition. Regardless of what ever party affiliation one

belongs to, our political atmosphere is so negatively charged that it pains me to listen to the news anymore. Its become a circular firing squad. No work, not much hope, but plenty of dope.

[StuckinBKK]

Vote em all out and start over again. American politics are f**ked up beyond recognition. Regardless of what ever party affiliation one

belongs to, our political atmosphere is so negatively charged that it pains me to listen to the news anymore. Its become a circular firing squad. No work, not much hope, but plenty of dope.

Couldnt argue with that, but if youre going to start again the best idea is low taxation/ small govt as no matter who is in power they seem to be thieving self serving police state loving cnuts, the less money theyve got the less they can syphon and less money they have to control us.

[GoodKarma]

Tax n over spend it's the American Way.. Isn't it?